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Inside Alberta’s very bad week: A behind-the-scenes look at the killing of Keystone XL

 

EDMONTON/CALGARY – The Alberta government’s trade office in Washington, D.C. called home last week with grim tidings: Rumours were circulating the U.S. capital that President Joe Biden was planning to scrap the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office.

It set off a wave of alarm. The Alberta government worked through the weekend to prepare its response strategy and a flurry of phone calls were placed between Ottawa, representatives in Washington and to the TC Energy headquarters in Calgary. On Sunday, news outlets reported on a Biden team transition memo that said the death of Keystone XL was coming.

The fix was in. KXL’s cancellation fits the LPC agenda perfectly. Impoverish Canadians and call it building a “sustainable green economy.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, USA

With Keystone XL effectively dead, where does Jason Kenney go from here?

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has spent the last number of days calling for consequences and compensation in the aftermath of U.S. President Joe Biden revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

But Canada’s options appear limited, and are unlikely to include the introduction of sanctions, as the premier has suggested.

In an interview Saturday on CBC’s The House, Canada’s ambassador to the United States even said it was time to let the project go in favour of other pressing bilateral issues.

The fix was in.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Isn’t it great that the oil from Canada will now be moved by trains and trucks?

Now that the Keystone XL pipeline is canceled by President Joe Biden, the world is supposedly greener.

Really?  Fact is, it’s the opposite.  Instead of getting more environmentally friendly, the carbon footprint from that oil will be increased substantially because it will be shipped by trucks and trains above ground instead of through underground pipe.  It is also much less safe and efficient: shipping by trucks and trains means more accidents — and an increased human cost.  What sheer brilliance!  I thought all of Biden’s decisions were going to be based on facts and science.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

‘What happened to the PLAN?’ Biden roasted after claiming ‘nothing we can do to change pandemic’s trajectory’

US President Joe Biden was pilloried online after saying he is powerless to change the “trajectory” of the coronavirus pandemic in the coming months, directly at odds with repeat campaign vows to “shut down the virus.”

The president voiced pessimism about the ongoing outbreak on Friday as he prepared to sign a pair of executive orders aiming at pandemic-related relief, saying the death toll could soon top 600,000 – adding 100,000 fatalities to a projection he gave just one day prior.

Biden is an enfeebled sack of shit. The media that enabled him is full of shit. The corrupt political class aka “The Swamp” the backed him is full of shit. The Corporate class that supported him is full of shit. Anyone who voted for him is full of shit. But Orangeman Bad.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", USA

David Staples: Will the United States choose Alberta crude or go with massive job losses and dictator oil?

This is an alarming moment for Alberta, with the Keystone XL pipeline axed by U.S. President Joe Biden and green activists keen to see the death of more pipeline projects.

Several major targets are crucial to Alberta’s future, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to Burnaby, B.C., and Line 3, which moves Alberta crude down to Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, USA

Rex Murphy: Were I an Albertan today, I’d be asking: What’s the point?

I’d be asking, how long are we going to put up with being mauled and mocked and stymied and blocked, by forces within Canada and without?

He couldn’t wait.

Joe Biden didn’t let the sun set on his first day as president before coming down like a ton of bricks on Alberta. Almost with his first breath, he smashed Keystone XL.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, USA

Joe Biden must tell hate preacher Abu Hamza to abandon hope of return to Britain

Abu Hamza – hero to satanic death cult

IT should surprise no-one that hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri is pleading to come back from his tough US jail  – but, put simply, the Americans must tell him to abandon all hope of an escape to a softer regime.

Life for the notorious Islamist firebrand inside the US high security prison will have been a shock after the soft-soap treatment he received in the UK, where his dangerous preaching was indulged for years.

Don’t put anything past the Biden clown-show so long as Joe gets his 10%,

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, USA

Why Burn Books When You Can Ban Them?

Hundreds of publishing officials, professors, and academics have signed a petition to blacklist Trump administration alumni from receiving book deals. It is the latest step in a rapidly expanding anti-free speech movement in the United States. In the wake of the Capitol riot, Democratic members and others are calling for a crackdown on free speech and punitive actions for those viewed as complicit with Trump. What is striking is how censorship, blacklists, and speech controls are being repackaged as righteous and virtuous. Indeed, the failure to sign such anti-free speech screeds is a precarious choice for many. It is as easy as calling for tolerance through intolerance. After all, why burn books if you can just effectively ban them?

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCensorship, Freedom of speech, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump is literally Hitler!, USA

The Palestinian Plan to Dupe the Biden Administration

One week after he entered the 17th year of his four-year term in office, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas finally announced new parliamentary and presidential elections, scheduled to take place in May and July 2021.

His announcement was carefully timed to coincide with the inauguration week of President Joe Biden and in response to immense pressure from the European Union.

Abbas’s announcement, which many Palestinians take as seriously as they would take the alleged sighting of a UFO, is part of an attempt to curry favor with the Biden administration and the EU.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Palestine and Palestinians, USA

Varcoe: Keystone XL is shot down, and the target turns to other pipelines

Varcoe: Keystone XL is shot down, and the target turns to other pipelines

On his first day as president, Joe Biden pulled the pin on Keystone XL.

The political fallout reverberated on both sides of the border, as pipeline opponents set their sights on other infrastructure that transports Canadian oil into the United States, such as Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement project.

Go ahead Libs, just keep repeating “Orange Man Bad”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, Canada, USA

Twitter’s selectively elastic TOS: Iran tweets threat to President Trump – Jack takes time suspending account… a long time

Twitter’s selectively elastic TOS: Iran tweets threat to President Trump – Jack takes time suspending account… a long time

A Twitter account bearing the name of Iran leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was suspended on Friday — 17 hours after tweeting a death threat to former President Donald Trump vowing “revenge” over the killing of top Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

The tweet from bogus Khamenei account @khamenei_site on Thursday depicted the likeness of Trump on the golf course being targeted by a drone flying overhead.

“Revenge is inevitable,” says the tweet, translated from Farsi.

Oh yea. I forgot. Orange man bad!

It struck me as odd that an American stealth bomber was used as the vengeance weapon of choice, then I remembered the Biden administration is now in power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Twitter, Twitter is Evil, USA

Premiers tell Trudeau they ‘want to go to war’ with U.S. over Keystone XL: sources

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced anger from some of Canada’s premiers Thursday over U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline project — including heated calls for punishment that could fracture ties between the two allies.

The First Ministers call, which lasted just over an hour, also touched on the coronavirus pandemic and issues with the nationwide vaccine rollout, sources told Global News. But Canada-U.S. relations in the wake of Biden’s controversial move dominated the discussion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, USA

Keystone XL pipeline: Why is it so disputed?

US President Joe Biden has cancelled permits for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office.

The pipeline had been projected to carry oil nearly 1,200 miles (1,900km) from the Canadian province of Alberta down to Nebraska, to join an existing pipeline.

Environmentalists and Native American groups have fought the project for more than a decade.

Development of the pipeline was blocked by the Obama administration in 2015, but President Trump overturned that order and allowed it go ahead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA